Betting preview: Charlotte vs Nashville SC should be interesting

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sat 20.May
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Bank of America Stadium

Nashville SC go on their trip to Charlotte and Bank of America Stadium loaded with confidence, but the home side is hard to beat. More news on the game here!

Insights:
  • Charlotte have the most conceded goals (23) in Major League Soccer
  • Nashville SC have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Major League Soccer

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Charlotte and Nashville SC.

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Charlotte form and stats

3-2-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for Charlotte, who have the most conceded goals (23) in Major League Soccer, so far this season. It’s been three wins in a row for Charlotte here at Bank of America Stadium, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.

Charlotte's last game was hosting Chicago Fire (placed 13th) and winning 2-1. Manager Lattanzio felt very clever after Cambridge scored the winning goal against Chicago Fire, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 59th minute. Sobociński was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.62 out of 10. The defender Sobociński won 10 of 12 duels.

In the game before, an away victory match versus Atlanta United with a 3-1 scoreline.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Charlotte have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 12 matches with the results: Won 8, drawn 0 and lost 4.

Some stats: A review of the 10 most recent league games highlights that 8 of them had goals from both teams.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Charlotte as they are travelling to their away game against Birmingham Legion in the US Open Cup. That match is four days after this one.

The Charlotte fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 9 in 7 matches. On the other hand, Charlotte have conceded 10 goals.

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Nashville SC form and stats

The visitors, who have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Major League Soccer, are W1-D2-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Major League Soccer.

Impressive finishing from Picault and MacNaughton secured the home win 2-1 against Inter Miami in their previous game. Lovitz was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.14. The defender Lovitz hit three key passes and won 7 of 8 duels.

Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to DC United.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Nashville SC playing away and similar expectations, we found 20 relevant matches. Results were 5 Nashville SC wins, 10 draws and 5 defeats.

Nashville have another match that requires travelling in just three sleeps, a US Open Cup match versus Inter Miami. A grim programme for the visitors!

The attacking power of Nashville SC when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 5 league matches away. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (4 so far).

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

Nashville SCH. Mukhtar
H. Mukhtar
6 goals
CharlotteE. Copetti
E. Copetti
4 goals
CharlotteK. Świderski
K. Świderski
3 goals

Charlotte missing players

Nashville SC missing players

Charlotte Nashville SC
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
13 7 3 Played P 3 5 13
5 3 1 Won W 1 1 6
3 2 0 Drew D 1 2 4
5 2 2 Lost L 1 2 3
18 9 1 Scored S 4 4 17
23 10 4 Conceded C 3 4 8
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 85%
85% 71% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 60% 69%
77% 57% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 20% 31%
46% 29% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 8%
8% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
69% 57% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 40% 38%
8% 14% 33% Clean Sheets C S 33% 40% 46%
23% 29% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 40% 31%
 
5.1 5.7 5.3 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 4.8 5.5
4.4 3.9 4.3 Corners against (avg) C A 5.7 4.6 4.2
2.8 2.1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 2.2 1.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10 11 12.7 Shots (avg) S ( 9.3 9.8 12.2
3.3 3 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 2.8 3.9
42% 43% 9% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 29% 33%
 
12.2 10.7 12.7 Shots against (avg) S A 13.7 11.8 11.8
5.2 4.9 4.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 4.2 3.7
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Charlotte have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Nashville SC have scored away.
  • Charlotte have the most conceded goals (10) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Charlotte have the most conceded goals (23) in Major League Soccer
  • Charlotte have the most conceded goals in the first half (11) in Major League Soccer
  • Charlotte haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Nashville SC have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Nashville SC have the fewest conceded goals (4) away in Major League Soccer
  • Nashville SC have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Major League Soccer
  • Nashville SC have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Major League Soccer

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Cincinnati 12 8 3 1 18 12 7 7 0 0 12 3 5 1 3 1 6 9 6 27
2 New England 12 7 3 2 19 11 6 4 2 0 12 3 6 3 1 2 7 8 8 24
3 Nashville SC 13 6 4 3 17 8 8 5 2 1 13 4 5 1 2 2 4 4 9 22
4 Atlanta United 13 6 3 4 25 21 7 5 1 1 16 7 6 1 2 3 9 14 4 21
5 Columbus Crew 12 5 3 4 23 14 7 4 2 1 18 6 5 1 1 3 5 8 9 18
6 Philadelphia Union 12 5 3 4 17 14 6 3 2 1 10 5 6 2 1 3 7 9 3 18
7 Charlotte 13 5 3 5 18 23 7 3 2 2 9 10 6 2 1 3 9 13 -5 18
8 DC United 13 4 4 5 16 16 6 2 2 2 9 8 7 2 2 3 7 8 0 16
9 New York City 13 4 4 5 15 16 5 4 1 0 10 5 8 0 3 5 5 11 -1 16
10 Orlando City 12 4 4 4 13 15 7 2 2 3 6 8 5 2 2 1 7 7 -2 16
11 Inter Miami 12 5 0 7 13 14 6 4 0 2 10 6 6 1 0 5 3 8 -1 15
12 Montreal Impact 12 5 0 7 11 20 5 4 0 1 9 3 7 1 0 6 2 17 -9 15
13 Chicago Fire 12 3 5 4 15 18 7 2 5 0 10 8 5 1 0 4 5 10 -3 14
14 New York RB 13 2 7 4 8 11 6 2 3 1 5 4 7 0 4 3 3 7 -3 13
15 Toronto 13 2 7 4 13 17 7 2 4 1 8 7 6 0 3 3 5 10 -4 13

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Major League Soccer (often known simply as MLS) is the top level of football (soccer) in the United States and Canada. MLS has 24 teams divided into two conferences, Eastern and Western. Each team play 34 fixtures to decide a league table champion. The top fourteen teams then compete in playoff to crown a MLS Cup champion.